Detailed presentations given at Parent Forum 5th Feb 2010Dear Parents / Guardians Here are the two presentations that were shown during the Parent Forum this evening. The Mark Presentation file is an initial outline as to the curricular and extra curricular projects which we aim to be starting in Bolitho in 2010. The parental forums will be a key opportunity for consultation between the school and parents in forming a clear strategy about enriching curriculum both inside and outside the classroom. Sometime in the near future we will be asking parents to fill in an online survey to help us in the preparation of the schools’ enrichment programme that will begin in 2010. Mark Shere
Tea party and Parent Forum 5th Feb 2010Dear Parents / Guardians, You are all cordially invited to a tea party to celebrate the acquisition of Bolitho by the GEMS’ group of schools. This will be held in the gym this Friday, 5th February, and will commence at 14:30. We look forward to seeing you all there. Please note, Friday 5th February will NOT be a mufti day as we feel the school uniform should be worn to celebrate this event. There will, however, be a mufti day to raise funds for Haiti at a later date. Letter to Parents 2nd Feb 2010Dear Parents, A letter from GEMS will be coming home with students this evening. If your child is absent today or is a weekly or full boarder, the letter will be posted and should be with you in a couple of days. STOP PRESS 29th Jan 2010The Headmaster would like you to be aware of the following communication from Anders Hultin CEO of GEMS UK. Dear colleagues, pupils and parents. I am pleased to announce that GEMS Education has acquired the Bolitho School. I will be writing to staff and parents at the beginning of next week to provide more information regarding the integration of Bolitho into the GEMS’ group of schools. Finally, I can assure you that all buses will run on Monday as usual! Anders Hultin |
It is a great pleasure to welcome you to the website of the Bolitho School.
Having just taken up the baton as the Headmaster of this historic school I feel privileged to have been given the opportunity to lead the pupils and staff into the next stage of the school’s development.
This is a dynamic and vibrant community which upholds the values of a traditional education whilst, at the same time, engaging in innovation appropriate to education at the start of the 21st Century. Our purpose is to provide an outstanding education for children, supporting them in their passage to adulthood by developing character and intellect within a small community in which each individual is cared for and valued equally. Such a stimulating and supportive atmosphere enriches children in all aspects of their academic and personal development in such a way as to prepare them to face a future of change and challenge. I believe that education should be an exciting, uplifting and liberating experience, a process that unlocks a world of opportunity. It must give pupils a lifelong appetite for knowledge and understanding, a curiosity about the world and a delight in it.
After visiting Bolitho for the first time, parents and visitors often comment on the welcoming and friendly atmosphere of the School; how pupils are calm and at ease with each other and their teachers. Visitors welcome the opportunity of looking in classrooms and witnessing for themselves young people engaging with their teachers and enjoying their learning.
Regularly coming top of the league tables in external examinations for Cornish Schools is very pleasing. However that is not the full story. Although we have a reputation for academic excellence we are deliberately not an academic “hothouse”. We believe that education should travel far beyond the confines of the syllabus and the classroom. Minds are opened and spirits enriched by opportunities for sport, the creative and expressive arts and the pursuit of Learning in all its diverse forms. Here we want pupils to feel sufficiently secure to explore something new, to take a risk or to challenge an idea, and have the space and support to develop their own initiatives. We hope they will discover for themselves who they are, with the responsibilities that this entails in a changing world, leaving school equipped for service and leadership.
I am lucky that in being a headmaster I can directly affect much of what the pupils experience whilst they are here. For this privilege I am determined to ensure that those who have strengths continually have something to yearn for, and those who have weaknesses have nothing to run away from.
I sincerely hope that you will consider the Bolitho School for your child. I would like you to meet with me to look around the School, to converse with current pupils, and to discuss the opportunities which Bolitho could offer. I can assure you that you will receive a warm Bolitho Welcome.
I look forward to meeting you.
Mark Shere
Headmaster